Quote Originally Posted by rvg View Post
Maybe so. I would argue though that Israel cannot afford to have a less aggressive stance given past and present actions of its neghbors and the Palestinians. Arab states ganged up on Israel in 3 separate wars and 3 times they went home crying. It's time to stopthe stupid and pointless violence (aka rocket attacks) and start building a peaceful future.
Hmmm... last Arab instigated Israeli war was over 30 years ago. You think they may be dining out a little long on that scare story? Since the 1970s the picture has been one of Arab diplomacy. Hizbollah were created by Israel doing some regional powerplay in Lebanon. Take a look at what happened in the Palestinian refugee camps in that country. Perhaps they don't teach that in American text books.

As for stupid and pointless rocket attacks - I agree they are stupid and pointless. They draw attention away from the drastically greater number of Palestinians killed by state-of-the-art US military equipment given free to Israel by the US - but as someone has said - what has this got to do with the US

Did you hear the latest US spokesman? "Hamas has to declare a ceasefire that we can believe in... er.. not we, I mean Israel can believe in".